Analysts say the Torifune fly-by highlights Tokyo's growing role in global space safety efforts and its 'goodwill science' ...

The Asteroid That Briefly Worried Planetary Defense Experts Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in late 2024 and quickly drew attention because early orbital calculations left open a possible Earth ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...

Scientists are meeting this week to figure out how to stop a hypothetical asteroid traveling at 31,000 mph from hitting the Earth. NASA says this is just an exercise and there is no imminent danger of ...

New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss the planet but strike the Moon and pose “potential danger” to satellites.

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic explosion.